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O.C. judge testifies in defense of 'false and misleading' expense report

Posted on January 22, 2008
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly MacEachern testified in her own defense last week against charges that she lied on an expense report, the Orange County Register reported. In August, the state Commission on Judicial Performance accused MacEachern of lying...

Former L.A. Mayor James Hahn joins Alternative Resolution Centers

Posted on January 22, 2008
Former Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn joined private conflict resolution provider Alternative Resolution Centers, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported. As one of their panelists, Hahn will focus on disputes involving business, finance, public policy and personal injury issues...

Carroll Burdick promotes Michael Mehall to partner

Posted on January 22, 2008
Carroll Burdick promoted product liability litigator Michael Mehall to partner at their Los Angeles office. Mehall defends of manufacturers in products liability and other major liability claims. His experience extends to all aspects of complex products litigation, including discovery, motion...

Three new partners at Weston Benshoof

Posted on January 22, 2008
Weston Benshoof promoted three attorneys to partner at their Los Angeles office. Kyle Ostergard (top left) focusing on construction clients and other real estate matters. He counsels construction industry clients during all phases of the construction process, from procurement to...

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State Bar subpoenas law firms in Aguirre investigation

Posted on January 18, 2008
The State Bar of California issued a subpoena seeking copies of bills from several law firms that worked for San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The state bar will hopes to get copies of bills...

Judge overturns $1 disability discrimination award

Posted on January 18, 2008
The Los Angeles Superior Court Appellate Division overturned a $1 award for two paraplegic men for failing to prove that the disability discrimination in question was intentional, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports. The two wheel-chair bound men sued a Hollywood pizza...

Emily Yukich promoted to partner at Folger Levin

Posted on January 18, 2008
Folger Levin promoted Emily Yukich to partner at their Los Angeles office. Yukich specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate governance and private debt and equity financing. She is on the editorial board of Business Law News, a publication State...

City attorney proposes mandatory wildfire rules

Posted on January 18, 2008
San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre wants mandatory new building codes for homes in high-risk wildfire areas, KPBS reports (LISTEN). The new rules, if passed by the city council, would regulate where homes can be built and require use of...

Two new partners at Murchison & Cumming

Posted on January 18, 2008
Robert Panman and Eric Weiss were promoted to partner at Los Angeles' Murchison & Cumming. Panman (top left) focuses on construction, general liability and employment law. Weiss (bottom left) works on construction litigation, products liability, environmental and toxic tort litigation,...

Fledgling firm's attracts big clients

Posted on January 18, 2008
At a time when white-collar criminal lawyers are scattering to big firms, one L.A. boutique is accumulating big clients. Tom Brown, who co-founded Brown & White two years ago after leaving Sheppard Mullin with Kenneth White, was hired as counsel...

Veteran employee benefits and exec compensation lawyer joins Proskauer as partner

Posted on January 17, 2008
Attorney James Williams joined Proskauer Rose's Los Angeles office as a partner. Williams is an employee benefits and executive compensation lawyer who advises public and private global companies, universities, schools, tax-exempt organizations, multi-employer plans and government entities...

Milberg Weiss files 5 motions to dismiss kickback charges

Posted on January 17, 2008
Los Angeles -- Milberg Weiss filed five motions this week to dismiss the federal government?s kickback charges. The firm?s founding partner, Melvyn Weiss, has joined in most of the motions. Prosecutors allege that Milberg Weiss and seven of its lawyers,...

Jean Lawler named managing partner of Murchison & Cumming

Posted on January 17, 2008
Murchison & Cumming named Jean M. Lawler managing partner of the Los Angeles-based firm. Lawler chairs the firm's insurance law and business transactions practice groups was their first female partner in 1993. She was previously the president of the Federation...

Real estate attorney Wilbert Watts promoted to partner at DLA Piper

Posted on January 17, 2008
DLA Piper promoted real estate attorney Wilbert Watts Jr. to partner at their Los Angeles office. Watts represents major financial institutions, investment funds and insurance companies. His experience includes commercial leasing transactions on behalf of landlords and tenants for both...

Patent attorney Fred Hernandez joins Mintz Levin

Posted on January 17, 2008
Patent attorney Fred Hernandez joined the intellectual property group at Mintz Levin's San Diego office. Hernandez, a former software engineer, was previously a principal at Fish & Richardson's San Diego office. He focuses on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution in...

Two new partners at McKenna Long's San Diego office

Posted on January 16, 2008
McKenna Long promoted Laurence Phillips and Rupa Singh to partner at their San Diego office, The Recorder reported. Phillips joins their government contracts practice. He represents contractors, public entities, real estate developers, manufacturers and other clients and their sureties and...

Howrey promotes Michael McGaughey to partner

Posted on January 16, 2008
Commercial trial and antitrust lawyer Michael McGaughey was promoted to partner at Howrey's Los Angeles office. McGaughey represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters, specifically antitrust, unfair competition, unfair business practices, breach of contract, business torts, civil investigative demands, insurance...

USC law prof joins Quinn Emanuel

Posted on January 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES ? Susan Estrich, law and political science professor at the University of Southern California, will join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges as of counsel in its Los Angeles office. Estrich, who is a legal and political analyst...

Fred Griffin joins Dreier Stein

Posted on January 16, 2008
Fred Griffin joined Dreier Stein's Santa Monica offica as a partner. Griffin was previously the head of Loeb & Loeb's labor and employment department. He focuses on representing employers in a variety of claims, including wrongful termination, employment discrimination, trade...

Andrew Holmes joins Manatt Phelps as counsel

Posted on January 16, 2008
Andrew Holmes joined Manatt Phelps' Los Angeles office as counsel in their litigation division. Holmes represents defense clients in a variety of fraud issues, including SEC and CFTC investigations, grand jury investigations and criminal and civil litigation involving allegations of...

Tony Richardson joins Reed Smith

Posted on January 16, 2008
A longtime partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Tony L. Richardson, has joined Reed Smith?s Los Angeles office. Richardson joins Reed Smith?s West Coast commercial litigation group. He focuses on insurance coverage, class actions and product liability cases. He also handles...

Sara Chenetz joins Sonnenschein Nath as a partner

Posted on January 16, 2008
Sara L. Chenetz joined Sonnenschein Nath's Los Angeles office as a partner. Chenetz focuses on complex bankruptcy restructuring, workout and litigation matters. She was previously with DLA Piper.

L.A. County District Attorney may get 23% raise

Posted on January 15, 2008
County supervisors are considering a 23% pay raise for the Los Angeles County district attorney today. If approved for term, it would be the highest paid position in Los Angeles County government, the Los Angeles Times reports. Despite Gov. Arnold...

Debate over keeping county employee settlements kept private

Posted on January 15, 2008
Los Angeles County never publicly justified the $4 million paid to settle discrimination, harassment and wrongful-termination claims brought by county employees since 2006. County supervisors voted to allow county attorneys to keep employee-related settlements private last year...

State senator proposes ending life sentences for juveniles

Posted on January 15, 2008
State Sen. Leland Yee, D-Daly City, is proposing a bill to making it so that juveniles convicted of serious crime can't get a life sentence without the possibility parole in California. There are 227 juvenile inmates sentenced to life without...

Carona retires to keep pro bono representation

Posted on January 15, 2008
Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, indicted on federal corruption charges, retired yesterday (Watch). Carona said he retired to accept $2.5 million worth of free legal services. A complaint was filed against him claiming that Jones Day's offer to defend him...

New administrative partner at Sheppard Mullin

Posted on January 15, 2008
Dana Dunwoody is the new administrative partner at Sheppard Mullin's San Diego office. Dunwoody, a partner in the firm's business trial group, succeeds attorney Laura Taylor who recently joined the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Dunwoody focuses on complex litigation and trial...

L.A. Superior Court Judge Bradford Andrews retires

Posted on January 15, 2008
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bradford Andrews retired, The Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports. Andrews, 63, told MetNews that he plans to hear cases by assignment but not to practice law. Andrews? seat is up for election this year, unless the governor...

McKenna Long - Two real estate attorneys promoted to partner

Posted on January 15, 2008
Real estate attorneys David Larsen and Timothy Scott were promoted to partner at the McKenna Long's Los Angeles office. Larsen, top left, works largely on commercial lending, real estate finance, real property acquisition and disposition, commercial leasing, workouts, debtor-in-possession finance,...

Major Lindsey promote two to partner

Posted on January 15, 2008
Major Lindsey promoted Peggy Jean Harari and Dan Hatch to partner at their Los Angeles office. They also were elected to the firm's board of directors. Harari (top left) co-leads the firm's global in-house practice group. Hatch (bottom left) is...

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